The ground is ripe for worldwide Islamic fundamentalist
expansion. Mohammedanism is currently the fastest-growing religion on the planet. There
are a billion Moslems...as many as Jews and Christians combined...and that number is
increasing daily. According to Cairo University's Professor Ali Dessouki, 50 countries are
now Islamic.
In many areas, fundamentalists are sweeping elections, manipulating generals, funding
insurrections, sponsoring terrorism, or actually taking control. Islamic fundamentalists
have poured money into America's black communities in an effort that has brought more than
a million U.S. African Americans over to the one true faith.
While most of these converts remain peaceful, Al-Fuqra, a predominantly African-American
Islamic group under the leadership of Pakistani Sheikh Mubarak Ali Jilani Hashemi, has
declared a jihad in North America, and, according to law enforcement agencies, has been
involved in bombings, murders and other forms of bloodshed in Colorado, Arizona,
Pennsylvania and Canada.
It has been reported that Al-Fuqra also had a hand in the 1993 effort to blow up New
York's United Nations building, the city's FBI headquarters, and its Holland and Lincoln
Tunnels. When the Iranians declared a death-sentence on British author Salman Rushdie,
black American imams everywhere from Brooklyn to Los Angeles enthusiastically supported
the move. (So did the Moslem head of UCLA's Middle Eastern Studies Department.)
Even a loyal African-American Gulf War veteran, won over to Allah in 1991, stated after
his change in faith that "soon it [Islam] will take over all of America, then the
world."
The U.S. African-American community is only a beachhead. Islamic forces have been
attempting to gain control of U.S. media outlets in the hope of using them as propaganda
tools for the Moslem point of view. The Saudis and America's Christian fundamentalists
battled in the early '90s for the right to purchase America's second largest wire service,
UPI. Ultimately, the Arabs won.
In reality, Islam, like most other religions, has both its positive and its negative
sides. It imposes a host of admirable responsibilities on its adherents: for example,
zakat, the presentation of regular, substantial contributions to the poor. Allah also
demands that his followers "give glad tidings to those who believe and work
righteousness," "cover not Truth with falsehood nor conceal the Truth when ye
know (what it is)," and "treat with kindness your parents and kindred and
orphans and those in need."
However, Allah issues many a darker order as well. And the percentage of modern Islamic
adherents who have focused on Allah's calls to combat is dismaying. Today, the descendants
of the Persians who fought the Greeks in 480 BC are devout Moslems. In the '30s, one of
them labored diligently to become an Islamic scholar. He pored over the Koran for years.
As he demonstrated his superior knowledge of Allah's pronouncements, he rose in the ranks
of Iranian holy men. Finally he achieved the penultimate title--ayatollah (roughly
equivalent to a Catholic cardinal).
His name was Ruhollah Khomeini, and he wrote books, pamphlets, and even taped and
distributed his speeches to inspire the citizens of Iran with sacred virtue. The
ayatollah's words roused Iranians to overthrow the shah and usher in a government based on
strict Islamic doctrine. What did the ayatollah's pronouncements say- Among other things,
that infidels are like dogs. Their existence is an affront to Allah.
Here's how the ayatollah himself put it: "...Moslems have no alternative... to an
armed holy war against profane governments. ...Holy war means the conquest of all
non-Moslem territories. ...It will ...be the duty of every able-bodied adult male to
volunteer for this war of conquest, the final aim of which is to put Koranic law in power
from one end of the earth to the other. "The leaders of the USSR and of England and
the president of the United States are ...infidels.... ...Every part of the body of a
non-Moslem individual is impure, even the hair on his head and his body hair, his nails,
and all the secretions of his body. Any man or woman who denies the existence of God, or
believes in His partners [the Christian Trinity], or else does not believe in His Prophet
Mohammed, is impure (in the same way as are excrement, urine, dog, and wine)[sic]."
Concluded the Ayatollah, "Islam does not allow peace between... a Moslem and an
infidel." Though many of us imagine that the promotion of harmony is a prime
objective of every major world faith, the ayatollah disagreed. "The leaders of our
religion were all soldiers, commanders and warriors," he wrote, "...they killed
and they were killed."
The concept of a peaceful prophet was so alien to the ayatollah that he was convinced
Christ's message had been deliberately distorted by Westerners. Said Khomeini, "This
idea of turning the other cheek has been wrongly attributed to Jesus (peace be unto him);
it is those barbaric imperialists that have attributed it to him. Jesus was a prophet, and
no prophet can be so illogical."
Khomeini's dicta may seem irrelevant now that he has long been dead, but his words have
actually gained in influence since his demise. Early in the '90s, Iraq's humiliation in
the Gulf War undermined the credibility of the secular Moslem regimes, leaving a power
vacuum into which Fundamentalism leaped. There are currently roughly one 100,000,000
Islamic fundamentalists (rechristened "Islamic revivalists" by some scholars ).
Activists among them, employing the slogan "Africa for Islam," are making
diligent--and often violent--efforts to seize power in numerous sub-Saharan states. They
have gained sufficient favor with South Africa's ANC that Nelson Mandela, in a 1992 visit
to Teheran, told the Iranians that Africa must be reshaped along the lines of the Iranian
revolution. (Ironically, when South African leader Bishop Desmond Tutu gave a speech to a
Palestinian crowd in 1989 lauding Palestinian interests, he failed to realize that the
Arabic banners carried by his listeners read "On Saturday We Will Kill the Jews, on
Sunday We Will Kill the Christians!")
Khomeini-style fundamentalists have become vigorous political forces in areas like China's
Sinkiang region (where as of 1994, Beijing officials were seriously concerned that the
area's inhabitants, influenced by propaganda from Iran, would attempt to break away and
found a fundamentalist Islamic republic).
Islamic fundamentalists have been involved in the Indian state of Kashmir's vicious civil
war. They've been active in Malaysia, Thailand (where Moslem guerilla forces were fighting
in 1993), and the Sudan (where an Iranian-backed fundamentalist regime is engaged in a
campaign to subjugate, exterminate or--according to the United Nations International Labor
Organization--literally enslave the black Christians and animists in the southern region
of the country).
Followers of Khomeini have been moving aggressively in Algeria, Jordan, Tunisia, Lebanon,
Kuwait, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan (where by 1992 posters and
portraits of the ayatollah had become a particularly strong sales item in local stores),
France, and, according to Greek Defense Minister Ioannis Varitsiotes and the University of
Belgrade's Dragoljub R. Zivojinovic, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia.
In addition, Amal Adam, the former head of Saudi Arabia's equivalent of the CIA, was the
primary backer of a British-based firm called Capcom, whose chief officers were the heads
of TCI (Telecommunications Incorporated), America's largest player in the cable television
game. In 1993, TCI made headlines when it came within a hair's breadth of merging with
Bell/Atlantic. Had the effort succeeded, it would have formed what financial analysts
universally heralded as one of the giants of the coming interactive media revolution,
giving the Saudis additional leverage for American media manipulation.
What's more, there are massive Mohammedan populations everywhere from Nigeria to Mongolia,
the former Soviet Central Asian republics, Southeast Asia, and the Philippines. The
countries with the world's largest Islamic bodies of citizenry are not even parts of the
Arab world--they are Indonesia and China.
Howard Bloom http://www.howardbloom.net |
